Monthly Archives: November 2018

Nunckley Hill – 12 November – Armistice 100+1 – This tour is done. This 6-wheel 130 year old hardly turned a wheel – yet managed to cross half of England and a quarter of Scotland and back, some 600 miles and more to take part in Eve of Armistice and Remembrance Sunday ceremonies in Leith…

Here’s a selection of photos from the truly amazing Sheffield & Leith Armistice Centenary Events with Quintinshill Memorial Carriage No.946 on display for the special Commemoration Service. Our deepest thanks to all attendees and those that made this event possible.

Saturday 10 November 2018 – On the eve of the Centenary of the Armistice of the Great War 1918 – What a highly charged day. Leith families turned out in hundreds to experience for themselves the type of carriage in which Grandfathers, great Uncles and friends had died at Quintinshill, in the worst rail disaster…

If you have friends in Scotland and indeed around the City of Edinburgh and you want something very unusual, have a look carefully at this event organised by The Leith Trust for Friday and Saturday next week… You can see and admire the Quintinshill Memorial Carriage – a 130-year old vehicle that will be displayed…